The children's school: Putting the three R's (reading,research, rhetoric) to work

Philip Vassallo teaches writing at Middle-sex County College, Edison, NJ, and writes on educational issues. Information about the Children's School can be obtained by writing MS. Carolyn Jones, Director, The Children's School, 2111 Crotona Avenue, Bronx, NY 10457.     

Putting doctoral education to work: challenges to academic practice

Professional doctorates designed to meet the needs of particular groups (education, nursing, business, law, etc.) have been established, and the PhD now encompasses a wide range of academic pursuits. However, the combination of the PhD and designated professional doctorates does not exhaust the range of doctoral‐level education. Is there a particular role for a doctoral‐level qualification for those who do not wish to follow the academic path of the PhD, or the designated path of existing professional doctorates? This paper argues that there is such a need, and identifies and explores some of the issues to be faced in addressing such a need. The paper focuses on three challenges for academic practice in doctoral education arising from this. First, the impetus for new forms of doctoral education is considered and what this implies for the diversity of current provision. Second, the target population for new professionally orientated doctorates is examined, namely ‘new knowledge workers’, those who operate in areas not covered by specialized doctorates and those who wish to negotiate transdisciplinary programs. Finally, the paper examines issues universities face in meeting the needs of new populations of doctoral candidates, particularly the need to develop new academic cultural practices.     

Putting textbooks to work: empowering religious education teachers

In 2002 a paper entitled Writing Church‐sponsored Religious Education Textbooks by Engebretson was published in the British Journal of Religious Education. This paper reported on and analysed some aspects of the development, by the Catholic Archdiocese in Melbourne, Victoria, of a series of religious education textbooks to be used in all Catholic schools in the Archdiocese. The paper contextualised the series, entitled To Know, Worship and Love, in the field of literature on textbooks in the classroom. It discussed some local issues that had led to the decision to produce religious education textbooks, explained and justified the choice of content for the middle secondary books, and discussed the presentation of the books. In the final section of the paper, it was indicated that future papers would report on the evaluation of the series and its implementation, as a three‐stage research project was completed. The first stage of the research project collected responses from teachers and Religious Education Co‐ordinators (RECs) to the Years 7 and 9 books, that is those books written for students of 12 and 14 years respectively. This paper discusses a significant finding that emerged from this stage of the research, that is the relationship between textbook use and level of qualifications and experience in the teaching of religious education. This major finding is of interest in relation to a range of educational issues in religious education, including the role and use of resources, the mandation of resources by Church hierarchies, creativity and flexibility in teaching religious education, teacher confidence and experience and the important issue of content knowledge. Further papers will explore evaluations of the Years 8 and 10 books, and overall issues that have emerged from this Archdiocesan curriculum project.     

Putting threshold concepts to work in health sciences: insights for curriculum design from a qualitative research synthesis

The idea of threshold concepts (TC) has been well received across the higher education community. However the concept’s framework is still evolving and the literature uses the framework in different ways. Just over a decade since the idea first captured interest, it is opportune to explore the nature of that discourse, and the kinds of enquiry undertaken to date. This article reports on a qualitative synthesis that analyses published research on TC in health sciences. It provides a fresh perspective on the literature to identify key themes. Inducting students into complex practices; beyond concepts and developing students’ agency, are the three themes to arise from our findings. These themes offer insights on the ways TC have been used to develop scholarly curriculum, teaching and learning practices. They not only reflect the concerns of the community, but represent a set of empirically based principles for curriculum and course design.     

Deterritorializations: Putting postmodernism to work on teacher education and inclusion

This paper presents an overview of the elements which characterize a research attitude and approach introduced by Michel Foucault and further developed as ‘studies of governmentality’ into a sub‐discipline of the humanities during the past decade, including also applications in the field of education. The paper recalls Foucault's introduction of the notion of ‘governmentality’ and its relation to the ‘mapping of the present’ and sketches briefly the way in which the studies of governmentality have been elaborated in general and in the context of research in education more particularly. It indicates how the studies of governmentality can be related to a cartography of the learning society, a cartography which helps us to get lost and to liberate our view.     

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数据赋能有助于构建化解基层治理模糊性困境的有效机制。基于对苏州市姑苏区“城运平台”这一数据赋能典型案例的考察,将数据赋能基层治理的核心机制提炼为“全要素清晰化”：通过对前沿数字技术的深度应用,基层政府的数据汲取、数据感知和数据认知能力得到显著增强;得益于基层政府对数据汲取、数据感知和数据认知能力的组合式运用,基层治理中的治理对象、治理主体、治理资源、治理过程和治理结果等各项要素也由模糊转向清晰。“全要素清晰化”背后隐含的是基于事件牵引的无缝隙治理逻辑和基于数实融合的敏捷治理逻辑。

     

努力开展研究工作为教师队伍建设服务

一、学会组织应为研究和建设好职教教师队伍做出自己的贡献 "教学作为一种职业,是一种公共服务形式,它要求教师通过严格和不间断的学习来掌握专业知识和专门技能",正如联合国教科文组织所认为的那样,"为革新职业教育的最基本的要求中,教师的作用始终是首要的","教师作为变革的因素,其作用在21世纪将更具决定意义".教师问题对教育是至关重要的,尤其是对职业教育.同样如教科文组织21世纪教育委员会报告所说,"职业教育常常缺少合格的教师,这种情况无助于提高它的声誉","要提高教育质量,首先必须改善教师的招聘、培训、社会地位和工作条件.     

中小学教师参与教育科研的方式初探

教师参加教育科研的基本方式是学，思，议，行，炼。即通过学提高理论水平，借鉴成功经验，再辅以车，议，进一步升华和深化，用以指导自己的教育科研实践。行即具体参加教育科研实践，在实践中总结，提高。     

新时期大学生先进典型培育工作研究

社会需要楷模,大学生同样需要榜样引领。挖掘、宣传和学习好先进典型,以点带面引领大学生成长成才,是高校思想政治教育工作的有效方法。本文重点研究新时期大学生先进典型培育的意义、原则和机制。     

农村中等职业学校如何开展教学研究工作

我们驻马店地区在河南省南部,属于欠发达的农业地区.农村中等职业学校,布局分散,远离县城,交通不便,规模较小,办学条件较差,师资力量单薄,专业课教师较少,每个专业同学科教师更少,开展教学研究工作起步较晚,条件比较困难,还没有完全形成系统的职教教研网络.为更好地开展职业学校教学研究工作,努力提高教学质量,我们依托办学条件较好的示范性学校,依靠职业学校的广大骨干教师,先后成立了全区中等职业学校各个专业中心教研组和文化课学科组,充分发挥了专职教研队伍的主导作用和兼职教研队伍的主体作用,使得教研活动开展得丰富多彩,有力地促进了我区职业学校的教学工作,对提高我区职业教育教学质量起到了很好的促进作用.结合我们的工作实际,针对农村职业学校特点,如何开展职教教研工作,谈谈我们的做法及见解.     

教研室工作研究

教研室是教学和科研的基层组织,它在教学和科研中起着堡垒作用。教研室工作的好坏直接影响着教学质量和科研水平。因此,把教研室建设好是不可忽视的工作。要搞好教研室工作,必须对教研室工作进行研究。     

论学术编辑的编辑与学术

学术编辑的编辑工作与学术研究应是良性互动关系,编辑工作既是对文稿进一步优化的过程,也是一个学习积累知识的过程。编辑工作带动了学术研究,学术研究提升了编辑水平。一个优秀的编辑应以编辑工作为主,以学术研究为辅,主次分明,专杂并举,才能更好地传播先进文化、科学知识和学术思想,实现学术编辑作为"文化人"的自我人生价值。     

高校学生工作评估体系研究

根据高职教育目标,参照ISO质量体系标准,分别以学生工作者、家长、用人单位及学生个体为评估者,对学生工作质量进行评估,从而构建一个有效、科学的学生工作质量评估体系,为学生工作实践提供参考。